Category: Recreation & Lifestyle

By Diane Norek Harrison PERTH AMBOY-This column is from my own research from 1920 material: Some of the natives of Denmark in the city, with their families, constitute a congregation known as St. Stefan’s Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church. Their place…

By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic At the outset of director Michael McCullers’s “Baby Mama,” about a snobbish single exec who has everything but the baby she so desires, there is hope. It looks like this tale of surrogacy just…

by Diane Norek Harrison Here is some of my own research from the area. Tell me what you remember from the past with what is listed in this column. Clark-Does anyone have memories or past material from “Clark Lanes?” In…

by Diane Norek Harrison SOUTH AMBOY-In honor of National Police Week, May 11-May 17, I found the following tidbits: In Jan. of 1920, The South Amboy Police Department petitioned the counsel requesting that 8 hour shifts be put in force…

By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic Director Nicholas Stoller hilariously reminds that if you turn heartbreak on its ear just so, you can show it for the folly that it is. Not that it seems at all possible to Peter…

By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic An ambience of intelligence, even when the characters are pompously unbearable, makes director Noam Murro’s “Smart People” an often disarming delight. Set at Carnegie Mellon University, where Dennis Quaid’s widower-professor Lawrence Wetherhold jadedly holds…

by Diane Norek Harrison SAYREVILLE—In 2007 I received an email from Morgan resident Frances Drake asking me if I had any past information on the Morgan section of Sayreville She was writing a paper for a class at Rutgers University.…

By Diane Norek Harrison SOUTH AMBOY–South Amboy turns 100 years old as a city in May-1908-2008. Here is the graduating Class of 1933 from St. Mary’s High School: There were 54 members of this graduating class. A few of the…

By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic Director George Clooney’s “Leatherheads,” a sports comedy circa 1925, amuses in a rote fashion that manages to be consistently convivial without offering a novel nuance or saying anything of great consequence. It’s a testament…

By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic Arriving at long last at the conclusion of “Run Fatboy Run,” we’ve somehow grown enamored of Simon Pegg’s Dennis Doyle, a London slacker who, in the opening scene, left poor, pregnant Libby (Thandie Newton)…